As an independent collective, Ateliê Vivo’s projects delves into the intersections of art, clothing and manual textile practices. Conceived and convened by four women artists—Andrea Guerra, Carolina Cherubini, Flávia Lobo and Gabriela Cherubini—the collective operates through three main platforms: the Modeling Library, the Ateliê Vivo School and the Textile Laboratory. They propose collective educational practice to cultivate critical thinking and autonomy while at the same time strengthening social, cultural and political territories. Ateliê Vivo’s activities are centred upon community and relationships built with one another to derive democratic and cooperative experiences. At the same time, they encourage accessibility by reducing learning barriers regardless of socio-economic, ethnic, gender, age and geographical backgrounds.

While in residence, Ateliê Vivo will activate the Pattern Library within and beyond the residency studios, turning it into a place for autonomous gathering, sharing and studying of textile and fashion with the community. True to the spirit of “collecting the world,” they will observe and photograph their explorations and experiences in the city while also accumulating and cataloguing found materials and discarded objects to be used to weave, sew and print. Together, they will inform Ateliê Vivo’s collaborative activations and programmes as they create a collective textile with the community while also sharing insights into textile production processes with the public.

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